Comments on: Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct? http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/02/08/is-darwins-survival-of-the-fittest-theory-going-extinct/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:14:42 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Luke http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/02/08/is-darwins-survival-of-the-fittest-theory-going-extinct/comment-page-1/#comment-610 David Luke Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:49:20 +0000 http://www.brainwaving.com/?p=986#comment-610 Hi, thanks for your comment. I didn't write the original article nor the book, but I have forwarded your message to Jerry Foder for comment. Perhaps he will reply. Cheers, David Hi, thanks for your comment. I didn’t write the original article nor the book, but I have forwarded your message to Jerry Foder for comment. Perhaps he will reply.

Cheers, David

]]> By: buffon http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/02/08/is-darwins-survival-of-the-fittest-theory-going-extinct/comment-page-1/#comment-606 buffon Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21:33 +0000 http://www.brainwaving.com/?p=986#comment-606 Fascinating. I'm gonna take a look at your book. Personally, I don't live within the Western scientific paradigm, so I don't feel obliged to find alternative deterministic mechanisms to explain the facts of life. I just choose to believe that Life itself is alive and intelligent and dances with exuberant creativity. That doesn't deny adaptive evolution, but just gives it a more modest role. What it does deny is the tenet of neo-darwinism which maintains that the only cause of phenotypic variation is random mutations. In that context, I am curious to know your opinion of the literature on adaptive mutation which has been piling up since the mid-80s from studies of induced evolution in bacterial populations. A lot of those results point to the notion that a genome can "intentionally" evolve in order to survive. Of course, most of the comments by the researchers themselves tend to be attempts to force the results back within the confines of the orthodox theory -- which often requires some heavy pushing and shoving. Do you talk about that in the book? Fascinating. I’m gonna take a look at your book.

Personally, I don’t live within the Western scientific paradigm, so I don’t feel obliged to find alternative deterministic mechanisms to explain the facts of life. I just choose to believe that Life itself is alive and intelligent and dances with exuberant creativity. That doesn’t deny adaptive evolution, but just gives it a more modest role. What it does deny is the tenet of neo-darwinism which maintains that the only cause of phenotypic variation is random mutations.

In that context, I am curious to know your opinion of the literature on adaptive mutation which has been piling up since the mid-80s from studies of induced evolution in bacterial populations. A lot of those results point to the notion that a genome can “intentionally” evolve in order to survive. Of course, most of the comments by the researchers themselves tend to be attempts to force the results back within the confines of the orthodox theory — which often requires some heavy pushing and shoving. Do you talk about that in the book?

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